Quotes About Dilemma

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.